Quote by A.A. Gill Download Open image ““The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.”” — A.A. Gill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
“Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“I remember stating that humour was the poor cousin of wit and at best it was the whetstone on which wit sharpened itself –… — Catherine Cookson Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I told them this was their language, this English, this most marvellous and expressive cloak of meaning and imagination. This great, exclamatory, illuminating song,… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Accent is the last great redoubt of prejudice. The race relations industry, that inquisition of fairness and sensitivity, doesn't protect against discrimination by funny… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows exactly where the first chickens were domesticated – India, China, Thailand, Vietnam – somewhere around 10,000 years ago, which is to say… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It's a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman’s ear for a tune. So when, at an official… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Down a winding cobbled street from the church trips the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, the most evocative and strangely dramatic of all morris dances,… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Trojan is giving away Magnum large condoms (do you think they were named after a large wooden animal inside which thousands of little men… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can’t make worse.” — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply as "the… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
